Amantha Starr, born and raised by a doting father on a Kentucky plantation in the years before the Civil War, is the heroine of this powerfully dramatic novel.
He was the only writer ever to receive Pulitzer Prizes in both fiction and poetry..
An acclaimed novelist, poet, critic, and teacher, the author of dozens of books, he was a man of letters in the truest sense.
About the Author: Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) was born in Guthrie, Kentucky, and attended Vanderbilt University, where he became a member of the Fugitive movement.
First published in 1955, it is one of the most searing and vivid fictional accounts of the Civil War era ever written.
Band of Angels puts on ready display Robert Penn Warren\'s prodigious gifts.
Only after many years, after achieving a hard-won wisdom and maturity, does she begin to understand that question. "Oh, who am I?" she asks at the beginning of the novel.
Despite sporadic periods of contentment, Amantha finds life with Tobias trying, and she is haunted still by her tangled past.
At war\'s end, she marries Tobias Sears, a Union officer and Emersonian idealist.
Amantha soon finds herself in New Orleans, where she spends the war years with Hamish Bond, a slave trader.
What follows is a vast panorama of one of the most turbulent periods of American History as seen through the eyes of star-crossed young woman.
At her father\'s death Amantha learns that her mother was a slave and that she, too, is to be sold into servitude.
Amantha Starr, born and raised by a doting father on a Kentucky plantation in the years before the Civil War, is the heroine of this powerfully dramatic novel
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